NetApp HCI [EOL] Reviews

Name: NetApp HCI [EOL]
Brand: NetApp
Rating: 4.0 (32 reviews)

Vendor: NetApp

4.0 out of 5

32 reviews
88% willing to recommend

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What is NetApp HCI [EOL]?

NetApp HCI is the only true enterprise-scale hyper converged cloud infrastructure. NetApp HCI comes in a 2 RU chassis with 4 node expansion slots.

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Massimiliano Bartolozzi

Chief Information Officer at Lucart S.p.A.

Their after-sales support, SLA, and third-parties availability should be improved. NetApp's support is very difficult to engage. We have an SLA of onsite support within 24 hours. but they don't respect the SLA. Its stability was very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crashes. In 2022, NetApp Italy, driven by the country manager Davide Marini, fixed all our issues and added additional computation power for free. This is a great example of customer care. They could have done it right the first time of course, but admitting the errors and putting in place such a remediation plan has been a very professional behavior.

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Rajith Attupurath

Senior Network & System Administrator at UOWD

We are mainly using it for lab virtualization with GPU and everything else. So, it is mainly for the lab environment It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good. The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating…

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EdwardHoppe

Senior SAN / Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

There have been some drive type of issues where we have to apply a new code level. Storage nodes kick certain drives until they act as though they have failed when really they haven't. You just have to reinsert them, then they go on about their happy way. It is a bug fixed in 11.0 of the code for Element OS/Solidfire. The option to pull in a config/text file to be used as input to the NDE process; rather than going through a lot of screens. The manual effort there is error-prone. This something NetApp engineering has been made aware of as a request and they say they're looking at that as a future enhancement. As far as SolidFire, if you use the GUI, you can only create one line at a time or device at a time. That's ludicrous. I referenced earlier today to the NetApp feedback panel that this needs to be fixed. They said, "Yep. I understand that." In terms of bandwidth and IOPS along with availability - we have not managed this environment long enough to put TIER1 environments under this umbrella; yet don't see why it couldn't handle the aforementioned especially if you create dedicated pods for those 'heavy hitters' (I'll just call it that.) Thus, in time we'll look for more deployments upon the converged infrastructure of NetApp.

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Category	HCI	Mar 26, 2026	Download
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Valuable Features

"The most valuable feature, currently, is the density of the system as hardware, as I'm able to leverage the density of the product and remove bigger hardware which requires more space, cooling, and power costs, and there are cost savings, obviously."
"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."

Room for Improvement

"The initial setup is very painful. It's not straightforward, requires a lot of knowledge to get it going."
"They could improve the packaging."
"The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment."

Pricing

"Its price is comparable to the competitors in the market."
"Its pricing is lower than our previous solution."
"The price of the solution is okay but could improve."

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NetApp HCI [EOL] Reviews Summary
Author info	Rating	Review Summary
Chief Information Officer at Lucart S.p.A.	4.0	In 2020, we chose NetApp HCI for our new SQL server environment despite initial support issues and crashes. Although it initially hindered ROI, improvements in 2022 boosted savings by 20% compared to our 2019 infrastructure TCO.
Senior Network & System Administrator at UOWD	4.5	No summary available
Senior SAN / Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees	4.5	I use this for Tier 2/3 storage, achieving significant OPEX savings and 35% ESX footprint reduction. It offers good modularity, scalability, and stability. Despite complex setup and GUI quirks, I'm satisfied, rating it 9/10.
IT Deputy at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees	4.0	No summary available
Senior IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees	3.5	We purchased NetApp HCI for redundancy and scalability, but the vCenter keeps crashing, preventing stable operation. We hope to resolve this instability to achieve our goal of no single point of failure and consolidate workloads.
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees		As a distributor, I find this solution very scalable and stable, with great support. I appreciate the separate compute and storage growth. However, networking needs improvement, and more hypervisor support is desired.
Storage Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees	3.5	I am testing HCI, valuing its density for cost savings and good stability. My biggest pain is the extremely complex and painful initial setup, particularly with external switches. I desire easier installation and single-pane management.
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees	3.5	I find the solution easy to administrate, supported by excellent technical service, which frees up my team's time. Despite good scalability, recurring motherboard failures and ISO upload limits initially caused stability concerns, resulting in a 7/10 rating.

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